Sentences with phrase «condition of the priest»

The sinful condition of the priest has nothing to do with the his authority to forgive or retain sins.

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At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

But the addition of numerous conditions concerning validity (the publication of bans, the presence of a priest and witnesses, registration in a parish register, etc.) betrayed the same anxiety to stem sexual immorality and correct abuses in the laws of marriage.»

The Rev. Kenneth Walker, who was killed on Thursday, and the Rev. Joseph Terra, who remains in critical condition, both belonged to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a Catholic community founded in 1988 that trains priests and celebrates the traditional Latin Mass..

Catholics are now open about their faith, and so in today's world are homosexuals about their condition, but there still seems to be something of a hush from homosexual Catholic priests.

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

In 1965 1 had already tried for ten years to cope with a throat condition that barred me from the public use of my voice whether as a priest or a professor.

It did mean two things: that a specially designated hierarchy as a channel of access to God was rejected; and that, under some conditions, any Christian might properly serve as priest to any other.

He told the publication that during his priesthood of more than 42 years, he had «always found priests very compassionate in meetings with people who have had this difficulty and have suffered from this condition».

Not the high priest in the temple in Jerusalem or the baptism of John the Baptist in the Jordan River brings the ultimate salvation, but rather keeping Jesus» words, as they are conserved in the Sayings Gospel — to be sure, on the condition that they are really kept, observed, and not just conserved.

The religious community - priests, prophets, laypeople - lives in the midst of the power and technology and wealth - which is where the religious community always must live, because it is precisely this community in the midst of power that knows that truth - telling is the condition for peace.

Being a priest he would know that priests were treated for this condition in the same manner as other s3x offenders; upon completing their treatment, were placed back in society to work as usual or in the case of a priest, in a diocese to continue in his priesthood.

These conditions drain the mental health of ministers and decrease their usefulness as leaders, teachers, and priests.

Seeing a spot on a man's arm, a priest judges it «skin disease» or «scab,» and his application of Torah determines the man's condition in relation to the tabernacle.

He was distressed at the sad condition of the Church of his day, the money shown by so many of the clergy from the pope himself to parish priest and he had been influenced by Franciscan spirituals and similar groups.

I saw professors, priests, and people were whole and at ease in that condition which was my misery, and they loved that which I would have been rid of.

Quaker founder George Fox wrote in 1647 of the inadequacy of the teachings of established religion: «But as I had forsaken all the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those called the most experienced; for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my condition.

In December, six of us, two nuns and four priests, went to the Dominican Republic to look at the condition of the Haitian sugar - cane cutters and report on employment practices in the sugar industry, especially in that part of it controlled by the Gulf & Western Corporation.

The contrast between their condition and that of the wealthy burghers and the over-numerous and sometimes very well - fed priests who often had little to do, was provocative.

Fortunately, death is not necessarily a permanent condition in Westeros: as we saw with Thoros of Myr and Beric Dondarrion in Season 3, the red priests of R'Hallor have a knack for bringing people back to life.

It is like the Catholic Church persecuting Galileo for saying the earth revolved around the sun, except the new behavioral «church» is the Church of Extremists and The Politically Correct, ruled by the operant conditioning / «all positive» / clicker training «priests», persecuting those who preach reality because it conflicts with this new church's utopian ideals of how the world should work.